Overview
The Regional Technical Advisor Education will provide technical leadership and support for the adaptation, development, testing, and improvement of teacher-focused active teaching and learning content and approaches for the PlayMatters initiative in Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Uganda.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical guidance and support to country teams in designing and implementing strategies to review, select, adapt, co-create, test, and improve active teaching and learning content.
- Guide the multi-media team to develop and contextualize evidence-based multi-media solutions for teacher capacity building.
- Collaborate with Research and MEL teams to maximize learning around education content.
- Collaborate with the Policy and Advocacy team to support partnerships with system actors and external partners.
- Ensure PlayMatters’ definition of Learning through Play is clearly understood and implemented.
- Provide technical guidance to country teams in designing and implementing programs that integrate active teaching and learning content.
- Support the implementation of quality improvement through supervision, coaching, and monitoring.
- Work with the Policy and Advocacy team to ensure content and program models are aligned with local or national standards.
- Collaborate with the EiE team to ensure education models adapted for crisis interventions are aligned to the general project model.
- Support country teams in engaging in co-design processes with systems actors.
- Identify opportunities to expand, deepen, and sustain the reach and impact of PlayMatters.
- Coordinate and facilitate uptake of various scale components of the PlayMatters core package.
- Ensure senior management are aware of successes and challenges and provide regular updates.
- Guide and assist in the writing and development of reports and other documents.
- Raise understanding and the profile of the PlayMatters Project within the region.
- Identify and participate in strategic forums in education.
- Stay abreast of the global and regional policy environment and identify critical entry points for IRC to influence policies.
Required Experience
- At least 5-7 years working in education with a focus on active teaching and learning methodologies, including in refugee-hosting or crisis-affected contexts.
- Extensive experience working in teacher professional development, curriculum design, developing content and/or overseeing program design for large-scale programs focused on active teaching and learning methodologies or a related field.
- Primary or pre-primary school teaching experience.
- Experience working in conflict and crisis settings, and knowledge of humanitarian programming.
- Experience working in East Africa in the education sector.
Qualifications
• Master’s degree in education, Child Development or related field, or equivalent level of experience and expertise.
